“Free throws,” he continued. “That’s part of our offense. We were 6-for-14 from the free-throw line.”

Knight also wants players to drive the baseline more, improve ball-screen defense, switching and “being on the white line more, which is our help line.”

That’s just from one game.

Knight jots notes during games and practices.

It’s an idea taken from his father, Bob Knight.

“He did it all the time,” Pat Knight said.

Now the younger Knight does too.

“I have them all the time,” Knight said. “You never know when you’re going to come up with an idea for the team.”

Knight said he has cards in his car, his bag and in his pockets.

“I tried one of those tape recorders and would talk into it,” Knight said. “That didn’t work too good. I just stuck with the note cards.”

Knight said his father still uses note cards.

“Even now, he’ll come up with ideas for me and just hand me note cards he’s written some kind of play or and idea or drill.

“And actually I made my assistants; I got them note card holders, and teach them to do it. Because, you know, you’re not going to sit there and remember everything.”

That was just one nugget from Knight’s postgame press conference. Here’s more of what he said.

On what Knight has learned about his team since taking over: I’ve learned a lot. We’ve got a lot to do but I’m starting to learn what guys can play and what guys are going to be in the rotation. It’s pretty much… we’ve got to break bad habits. We’re doing better from a defensive standpoint. … Then from an offensive standpoint, shot selection, not chucking shots. At times we’ll still go back to some of the bad habits. We’re not going to be peaking right now. There are still some good things but there are things we’ve got to improve on.

On what Knight liked Tuesday night: I liked the charges. I’ve never had a team take that many charges. I like that we were able to get 30 more points off turnovers and get ourselves some easy buckets. We probably should have had 12 more points. I had guys thinking ESPN was here and trying to make the highlights. They were throwing passes Jeter couldn’t even catch. We’re going to have a little work on that when practice resumes. I like the situation being there to take a charge and taking the charge and being able to score off the defense. Offensively we had times we took way too many jump shots. Still, I like, it looked like team ball offensively.

On how Knight approached the preseason exhibition game: There’s a lot of stuff – entries and zone – that we won’t play in these because I don’t want to tip our hat. And so we kind of made everything straight vanilla in these exhibition games. There’s some other things that will help us defensively, like where we double, we didn’t do any of that tonight. And from the zone standpoint too, mixing it up. You’ve got to be able to play at least one zone because guys are going to get hot. Even just one running it one time will throw them off their rhythm.

On player confidence: We still have a problem with body language. Guys started pouting, a little too much from an offensive standpoint. I want guys to pout because they miss a block out or they’re not on the white line and they don’t defend. We’ve still got to work on that.

On what games Knight is looking forward to the most: I looked forward to this one because I was this close to not coaching at all this year. I look forward to every game. I’ve got to change their mentality too. Bill Russell said it best, he had the greatest quote: ‘If there’s a game on the schedule, you might as well win it.’ … The kids can’t look at it and say, ‘Alright, I’m going to get up for this game and this game.’ You’ve got to get up for every game. Nothing drives me nuts more because you’re only guaranteed so many games in life. That’s what these kids don’t understand. … It has to do with the summer ball because they play 100 games during the day. You can lose three times and still make it to the championship. Winning doesn’t mean enough to these kids, and so we’ve got to get these players to where they’re circling every game. I thought some of them played that way tonight. … You’ve got to play every game. You’ve got to be like that guy (Joe DiMaggio) that was like, ‘This is the only time these people are going to see me play, I want them going away here saying good thing.’

On how many players he wants in his rotation: Nine, I think. We’re pretty close. A couple guys are hanging there, we’ll give them another shot, but I pretty much know. You know can kind of get it done, even though they didn’t show it tonight, I know overall what they can do. You’d like to get to nine, eight preferably. I think it will be nine. You start to get to 10 and all that, and it’s just a mess. I think that was one of the problems last year, you never saw a set starting five or a rotation. It was different all the time. From a confidence level, that just really messes up a kid. Now if a kid did so bad at practice or the game before and you’ve got to make a point, then yeah, you bench him that game. Pretty much from a playing standpoint and a coaching standpoint, you’ve got to have a rotation. Pretty much guys know hey we’re the starters and these are the guys coming off the bench. That was one thing I was kind of disappointed in. I didn’t think we had that spark coming off the bench. That’s one thing we have to have. We can’t have that letdown.

On when his father will visit for a game: Check his ESPN schedule. I’m trying to get him here hopefully in the next two weeks. I just talked to him yesterday. We were kind of wanting to do like a tipoff banquet before the season. I didn’t want to bring him here his first time here we’re using him for something like that, so we’re going to do something in the spring. When he comes here I just want him to hang out and meet people.